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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — LeGarrette Blount ran the Patriots into their third straight AFC championship game.
The 250-pound back had four touchdown runs and New England kept Andrew Luck from a second straight comeback victory, beating the Indianapolis Colts 43-22 on Saturday night.
Blount scored on three 2-yard runs in the first half, then burst through the right side of the line and rambled 73 yards into the end zone, where he placed the ball gently on the ground made soggy by a game-long rain. He finished with 166 yards on 24 carries.
On the next series, Luck threw his third interception and the Patriots capitalized with Stevan Ridley's second touchdown run, a 1-yarder that finished the scoring with 11:12 left.
The Patriots (13-4) will face the winner of the game Sunday between the Broncos and Chargers. It will be in Denver if the Broncos win, and New England will host it if the Chargers win. The Colts (12-6) never led.
"It's just a great achievement," Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said. "People have counted us out at times this year, but I think we've got a locker room full of believers."
Blount joined Ricky Watters, who had five touchdowns for San Francisco on Jan. 15, 1994, as the only players with four or more in a playoff game. And the six rushing touchdowns by the Patriots tied the 49ers' total in that game for second most in playoff history.
Blount's big rushing performance came two weeks after he ran for 189 yards and returned two kickoffs for 145 yards in a 34-20 victory over Buffalo in the regular-season finale.
"He's got that combination of size, power and quickness and speed," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. "He can run hard. He can make guys miss and he can go the distance."
Billed as a matchup between quarterbacks — long-time great Brady and second-year star Luck — the Patriots' leader was content to hand off while Luck threw an interception on his second pass and never found consistency. He threw two touchdown passes to LaVon Brazill but also threw four interceptions.
Luck had three interceptions a week earlier but led the Colts from a 38-10 deficit early in the third quarter to a 45-44 win over the Kansas City Chiefs in a wild-card game.
The Colts trailed 21-12 at halftime against the Patriots and cut it to 29-22 on a 35-yard pass to Brazill with 5:01 left in the third. The Patriots dominated the rest of the way.
Blount's first touchdown came on New England's first offensive play after Alfonzo Dennard intercepted Luck's pass and returned it 27 yards to the 2.
Blount scored again on the Patriots' second series in which Brady completed all four of his passes.
But Luck responded with a seven-play, 80-yard drive capped by his 38-yard touchdown pass to Brazill, who was guarded closely by Dennard as he made the catch on the left side a few yards from the end zone. Former Patriot Adam Vinatieri set an NFL record with his 59th post-season extra point, making it 14-7.
Blount got his third touchdown with 4:06 gone in the second quarter on a drive in which the Patriots converted all four of their third downs.
Vinatieri cut it to 21-10 with a 36-yard field goal 5:35 before halftime.
The Colts got a break late in the first half when Danny Aiken's snap sailed over punter Ryan Allen's head, ending up in a safety. The Patriots also got a break that the Colts didn't get a touchdown out it after Allen failed to concede the safety.
Allen fumbled into the air and Indianapolis' Jeris Pendleton slapped the ball out of the end zone for the safety, cutting New England's lead to 21-12 with 2:12 remaining.
"Ryan probably wasn't sure how close they were to him. Then when he turned around they were right on top of him," Belichick said.
Allen hurt his shoulder on the play and placekicker Stephen Gostkowski punted the rest of the game. Brady took over Allen's holding duties.
Indianapolis got the ball on the free kick, but the drive ended with Luck's second interception, to linebacker Dont'a Hightower.
Vinatieri's 21-yard field goal early in the third quarter made it 21-15.
Then the Patriots took a 29-15 lead on Ridley's 3-yard touchdown run and his carry for a 2-point conversion with 6:18 to go in the third.
But Luck came right back with his second touchdown pass to Brazill.
Brady completed 13 of 25 passes for 198 yards with no touchdowns or interceptions. Luck was 20 for 41 for 331 yards.


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Bishops' point man on 'religious liberty' gets a promotion
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (RNS) If there is any Catholic bishop in the U.S. who probably didn't need a bigger platform, it would be William E. Lori, who was named Tuesday (March 20) by Pope Benedict XVI as the next archbishop of Baltimore.
For the past decade, Lori has led the Diocese of Bridgeport in Connecticut's Fairfield County, but in recent months he's become the public face of the hierarchy's new signature issue: the fight for "religious freedom."
It's a fight that has defined Lori's career -- and is likely to define the public face of the church in the months to come.
In political terms, Lori has been tasked with coordinating the bishops' opposition to the White House's birth control mandate as well as opposing gay marriage and a host of other hot-button controversies.
Last September, Lori was tapped to lead the bishops' new Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty in order to sharpen the bishops' message and raise their profile after years of playing defense in the clergy sexual abuse scandals.
In recent months, Lori has testified in Congress three times, and the bishops' fight with the White House has dominated the headlines and even seeped into the 2012 presidential race.
"To tell you the truth, I feel a sense of urgency about it," Lori said, with some understatement, in an interview a few days before his promotion. "But at the same time it's a work that's important and fulfilling and I enjoy it."
Quiet and soft-spoken, Lori nonetheless brings a single-minded focus to defending sacred principles while also deploying the kind of double-edged humor that a religious leader needs to do battle in the public square. He can be sharp to the point of sarcastic but also self-effacing in regards to his own career.
"They say timing is everything," Lori said with the quiet laugh of a man who tends to see the irony and absurdity of so many aspects of modern life.
Now, with the move to Baltimore -- the oldest archdiocese in the U.S. -- timing is again Lori's ally. At just 60 years old, his new post will put him that much closer to the action, and now he'll have a papal imprimatur to bring with him.
Unlike the gregarious Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, who is president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Lori is slightly-built and almost shy. He likes nothing more than reading history, and loves books so much that he named his pair of sibling Golden Retrievers "Barnes" and "Noble."
"I am dialed-down quite a bit from Cardinal Dolan, no doubt about that," Lori said during an interview in the chapel at Sacred Heart University.
Lori learned the virtue of hard work from his immigrant family, especially his Sicilian grandfather, who arrived in America in the depths of the Great Depression and managed to launch a successful fruit and vegetable store. Born in Louisville, Ky., and raised in nearby Indiana, Lori watched his grandfather work in his garden until he was 87, and it was a lesson he never forgot.
"I'm happy, and I love working," he said. "Happiness and hard work go hand in hand."
It was also a lesson Lori took to the seminary, and it paid off. After studies in Kentucky, he earned a master's degree from Mount Saint Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., and was ordained in 1977. He earned his doctorate from Catholic University five years later, and after a brief stint as an associate pastor in suburban Washington, he went to work for the late Cardinal James Hickey of Washington.
Lori wound up working for Hickey for 18 years, serving in a variety of posts and learning even more about what it meant to work hard: "There are two words that I feared most at 10:00 at night from the cardinal: 'Second wind.' That would mean you were going until one in the morning."
In 2001, Lori was appointed to Bridgeport. Knowing that he could be made a bishop, he says he checked to see which dioceses had vacancies, and saw two: Bridgeport and Fairbanks, Alaska. "I said a little prayer that it might be the former. I'm just not that good at ice fishing and flying a Cessna," he said.
Within months, Lori was facing two huge crises: the 9/11 attacks that claimed many of his new flock, and the clergy abuse crisis that has continued to dog the hierarchy.
While Lori is known for his orthodoxy on doctrine and social issues, he was praised by many for taking a hard line in dealing with abusive priests, and in dealing with subsequent financial scandals that emerged. On the other hand, Lori also fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep documents on private settlements with victims -- reached before he became bishop -- sealed. He argued his case on religious freedom grounds, but eventually lost.
But two other episodes helped shape his outlook. One was a proposal by a pair of state senators to change the structure of Catholic parishes to have lay people, rather than priests and bishops, in charge. Critics suspected it was legislative mischief prompted by Lori's vocal opposition to Connecticut's gay marriage law.
Lori rallied the state's bishops and thousands of Catholics in a public campaign against the bill, which died fairly quickly. But it provided a template for Lori's current national approach.
"If it's just bishops speaking, in a democracy, we understand that as charming and as reasonable and as innately delightful as we all are, we'll have a better chance for a hearing when there's a lot of people out there saying, wait, this is a problem."
Another case, however, showed that Lori also knows the value of a strategic retreat. In 2007, Connecticut mandated that all hospitals provide emergency contraception to rape victims, a mandate that Lori and the other Connecticut bishops resisted much as they have the White House's current contraception mandate.
Within months, Connecticut bishops said they had undergone "an evolution in thinking" and now believed that the Plan B pill would not necessarily cause an abortion and so could be used at Catholic medical facilities.
Lori says the decision was a prudent one, based on the facts, and that the current Obama mandate is different because it includes other pills that are closer to abortion, as well as sterilizations. Despite the White House's assurances, he also doesn't believe that compromise proposals will not force the church to pay for contraception.
In that view of President Obama, Lori is voicing skepticism shared by the bishops but not necessarily their flocks. That sort of disagreement is the kind of thing that really gets his "dander up," as he said in explaining why he wrote a "nippy" response to an editorial in the Jesuit magazine America that had critiqued the bishops' wisdom in the religious freedom battle.
"I felt that an ironic -- some would say sarcastic -- little piece was a knife to cut through the fog," Lori said, relishing the memory of the exchange. "I enjoy a good piece of writing that has a bit of an edge to it, and other people do, too. We're all big boys and girls."
Lori believes that exuding joy as a bishop, not to mention displaying a sense of humor, is key to preaching the gospel. But if Lori's approach and sense of humor isn't to everyone's liking, he insists that too much is at stake to let personal feelings get in the way.
"Once you have preached the principle that a government can define a church and tell a church what to do, well, it could tell us about contraception today, it could tell us about abortion tomorrow, and physician-assisted suicide the day after that. It is the principle of the thing," he said.
"We certainly have to speak reasonably and civilly. But we also have to speak prophetically. And sometimes prophets are thought to be strident."

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By Michael Kitchen, MarketWatch
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — China's manufacturing activity has swung to contraction in May after months of slowing growth, according to preliminary data released Thursday from HSBC, with the results slamming stocks.
HSBC said the preliminary or "flash" version of its Purchasing Managers' Index for May fell to a seven-month low of 49.6, down from April's final reading of 50.4. A result below 50 signals contraction.
Ahead of the data, several analysts had cited a consensus estimate for the PMI to remain at 50.4.
Both the new orders and new export orders sub-indexes registered a decline in the preliminary survey, which generally includes 85%-90% of the total survey responses used for the final reading.
Also showing weakness, the sub-indexes measuring manufacturing employment and output prices both fell at a faster pace than seen in April.
"The cooling manufacturing activities in May reflected slower domestic demand and ongoing external headwinds. A sequential slowdown is likely in the middle of [the second quarter], casting downside risk to China's fragile growth recovery," said HSBC chief China economist Hongbin Qu.
"Further signs of labor market slackness call for more policy support. Beijing still has fiscal ammunition to do so," Qu said.
Investor aims to put billions into China logistics
Goodman Group plans to invest $3 billion in China's logistics industry over the next few years. Philip Pearce, the developer's greater China managing director, tells the WSJ's Deborah Kan why it's a long-term play that doesn't come without risk.
Kim Eng Securities head of sales trading Andrew Sullivan said that while the April result indicated trouble for Chinese exports, the flash print for May signaled headwinds domestically as well.
While April's PMI had shown new orders were at a five-month low due to destocking and reduced demand in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere in Asia, "May shows that trend [is] continuing, but worse is that domestic demand is failing to take up the slack," he wrote following the data release.
Stocks sell down, Aussie weakens
Asian stock markets reacted to the data with selling.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index /zigman2/quotes/210598030/delayed HK:HSI +0.47% , which had crawled back from an almost 1% loss earlier, headed back down after the PMI report, tumbling 1.9%. The Shanghai Composite Index /zigman2/quotes/206600939/delayed CN:000001 +3.21% saw a slightly more modest drop of 0.8%.
Australia, which counts China as its top export market, also saw sharp plunges for its stocks and currency. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 /zigman2/quotes/210598100/delayed AU:XJO -0.32% traded 1.8% lower, while the Australian dollar /zigman2/quotes/210560947/realtime/sampled AUDUSD -0.0274% fell to 96.34 U.S. cents from 96.62 U.S. cents ahead of the data.
Other markets also sold down, with Japan's Nikkei Stock Average /zigman2/quotes/210597971/delayed JP:NIK +0.18% giving up a 2% rally to briefly dip into losses, before recovering to end the morning session up 0.2%.
Taiwan's Taiex lost 1.2%, while Singapore's Straits Times Index /zigman2/quotes/210597985/delayed SG:STI -0.12% fell 0.5% despite data earlier in the day showing a surprise first-quarter expansion for Singapore's economy.
The final reading of the HSBC China PMI, which is compiled by Markit, was due out June 3, while a separate, government-sponsored version of the manufacturing PMI was slated for June 1.


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Does science have a "cure" for aging?
Academic longevity studies offer interesting clues to the fountain of youth.
There are recent studies touting reservatrol, a chemical found in grape skins and other fruits, as an anti-aging tonic. It was shown in some U.S. studies published in Nature in 2003 to extend the lifespan of fruit flies, worms and fish. It also appears to lower blood sugar and inflammation and cancer in rats, but the results have yet to be proven in humans.
A group of Texan researchers has found that drugs such as the antibiotic rapamycin will slow aging and extend the lifespan of older mice, a discovery touted as one of 2009's top medical breakthroughs by Science magazine. The drug has also been found to improve learning and memory in mice engineered to develop Alzheimer's.
Other clinical studies have shown that longevity might simply be inherited. A 2004 U.S. study of the offspring of centenarians published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society surveyed the children of 145 parents who lived to over 100. They found that compared to control groups, they were seven times more likely to live to ages 90 to 99, and were also 23 per cent less likely to develop hypertension, 50 per cent less likely to develop diabetes and 60 per cent less likely to suffer heart attacks.
Mood can also impact seniors' health. In fact, a recent 2010 University of Iowa study published in the journal Gerontology found the mental well-being of centenarians depended most on past life satisfaction, not on their current health or quality of life. And they discovered that those 80 and older could improve their mood and stave off depression by reminiscing about their lives and sharing memories of happy times.
The physical risks of aging: Illnesses and falls
While the leading causes of death for Canadians over 65 are circulatory diseases such as heart attacks, followed by cancer and respiratory diseases, and the leading cause of hospitalizations in this age bracket are circulatory diseases, respiratory diseases and digestive diseases, it may be surprising that one of the biggest risks to seniors' health is a simple safety hazard.
About 53,000 Canadian seniors are hospitalized each year due to falls, 11,000 in B.C. And they cost the Canadian health-care system close to $3 billion a year, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada. Among people over 65, 85 per cent of unintentional injuries requiring hospitalization are due to falls, as are half of residential care admissions.
"It is often that catastrophic event that results in a loss of independence, at which point your health tends to take that downward spiral," said Vicky Scott, senior adviser on fall and injury prevention with the B.C. Injury Research and Prevention Unit and the Ministry of Health.
"Even fear of falling can mean people are less mobile and afraid to go out and because of that lose muscle and bone density."
Prevention is as simple as adjusting medications that may cause dizziness, wearing sensible shoes, putting grab bars in bathrooms, taking vitamin D supplements, doing weight-bearing exercise and removing tripping hazards from the home. Most importantly, seniors should address these issues proactively: before, not after, their first fall.
How governments can help seniors age well
Ensuring healthy aging isn't just a personal responsibility. There is also a role for government to play.
A 2006 Report of the Premier's Council on Aging and Seniors' issues called Aging Well in British Columbia advised the province to step up its healthy living initiatives for older adults to ensure the population remains as healthy as possible, placing the least stress on health care.
"Older people are more likely to have chronic health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, dementia, or arthritis if they have been physically inactive and eaten a diet high in salt, fat and sugar," the report states. "Eating badly and inactivity have as much to do with land-use planning, marketing and social and economic policy as they do with personal choice."
In fact, government can dramatically re-shape the health of a country's citizens. In Finland in the 1970s, for example, where diets were high in fat and salt and low in fresh vegetables, Finnish men had the world's highest death rate due to heart disease. After public health campaigns, including changes in the food industry and increased taxes on unhealthy foods, by 1995, deaths due to heart disease had dropped by 65 per cent.
Want to learn more about how to protect yourself from falls?
Vicky Scott, senior adviser for fall and injury prevention for the B.C. Injury Research and Prevention Unit, advises that at-risk seniors can ask their family doctors for referrals to occupational therapists, who can conduct fall-prevention safety audits in their homes.
Or you can learn more about how to fall-proof your own house and safeguard your health online at:
-- The B.C. Injury Research and Prevention Unit: www.injuryresearch.bc.ca
-- The Centre of Excellence on Mobility, Fall Prevention and Injury in Aging: www.hiphealth.ca/CEMFIA
Interested in learning about more ways to stay healthy into retirement and beyond?
The Council of Senior Citizens' Organizations of B.C. offers more than a dozen free healthy living seminars to seniors' groups on topics ranging from medication awareness and nutrition for seniors, fall prevention and dealing with stress, to addiction and mental-health issues.
The B.C. government also offers a number of resources for seniors, among them:
-- SeniorsBC website: Portal for seniors in the province, with government service information as well as lifestyle tips: http://www.seniorsbc.ca/
-- B.C. Seniors Guide: Information about seniors health services, housing, transportation and safety http://www.seniorsbc.ca/guide/
-- B.C.'s Health and Seniors Information Line: 1-800-465-4911
-- 211: Community services and program referrals phone number: call 211 or visit http://www.bc211.ca
The global grey wave
The coming grey wave is not just a First World problem. Even the WHO is warning that global aging will revolutionize the earth's demographics: currently there are about 600 million people in the world over age 60, a number expected to double by 2025 and reach two billion by 2050, and the majority of these seniors will be living in the developing world.
Seniors' health and poverty
Healthy living and eating can be a challenge when an estimated one in five Metro Vancouver seniors — 18 per cent of those over 65 — lives below the poverty line, according to the United Way. For seniors who live alone, more than 40 per cent are subsisting on incomes below the poverty line. In B.C, eight per cent of residents over 65 were living below the poverty line as of 2004, well over the 5.6 Canadian average.
Decoding aging research
Gerontology is the study of the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging.
Geriatrics is a branch of medicine that studies the diseases of the elderly.
Biogerontology is the study of the aging process itself.
Geroscience is the study of the relationship between normal aging and age-related diseases.
Biomedical gerontology is the study of life extension by slowing or reversing the aging process.


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Using technology from the Blu-ray video disc format, Sony has released a new blue laser optical format designed exclusively for data storage. The format called Professional Disc for Data will offer 23GB of storage much like the Blu-ray disc, but will have much faster read/write speeds of 11MB and 9MB/sec, respectively. Due to its encapsulated design, the format is much more durable and reliable than CD-R and DVD-R.
[Sony] said it also improved disc durability, developing an antistatic polycarbonate resin cartridge that covers the disc, further protecting it from damage and data loss. The cartridge also promises to decrease the discs' sensitivity to dust and offers an estimated lifespan of more than 50 years, with the ability to be rewritten more than 10,000 times.
Unfortunately, the drive itself will retail at US$2,500 and US$3,000 for internal and external drives. Media will cost US$45 per disc. Yikes! On the bright side, Sony has already announced that it has two successive generations planned for 2005 and 2007 which will feature 50GB and 100GB discs, respectively. Each release is expected to double the read/write performance of the format as well. Despite this, it is difficult to say how it will fit into the product market landscape. When compared to cheaper, bigger, and faster options like the new Iomega Rev (35GB, 25MB/sec, $300 + $50 media), the Sony offering does not look so rosy, but you can bet that these optical drives won't suffer the "click of death."
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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
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The Early Modern Period
Richard Cumberland (1632-1718) is perhaps one of the unsung heroes of the natural law tradition. He was a liberal Anglican theologian and bishop, a philosopher, and a student of science and medicine, who lived through both the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Cumberland was drawn to the use of natural law and natural rights theories as a means of combating religious conflict during the Restoration period.


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Finally, Spring Training is about to begin. The Cubs open their brand new facility in Mesa, and the 2014 Spring schedule tomorrow afternoon against the Diamondbacks. Jeff Samardzija gets the start amid trade rumors that are still swirling given the perceived stalled contract negotiations between him and the Cubs. The Cubs will be opposed by Bronson Arroyo and a power laden D-Backs lineup that was bolstered in the off-season with the acquisition of Mark Trumbo who will play LF for Arizona tomorrow.
Here are the lineups, and the extra pitchers that both teams will be carrying. For the image impaired that are reading, the Cubs plan to use Wesley Wright, Alberto Cabrera, Justin Grimm, Pedro Strop, Blake Parker, Hector Rondon, and Jose Veras in addition to Shark. The game begins at 2:00 PM CST, and will be televised (!) on WGN.


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What's in the exam?
- Accompanied songs
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- Sight-singing
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We appreciate how much the cancellation of our exams has affected learners and we're working hard on solutions to ensure they can gain their qualifications at the earliest opportunity. However, on the basis of official and local advice we will be postponing the entry period for Session 2 Practical exams and we will provide an update about the exams scheduled for November - December as soon as we can.
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Nickels_n_Bullets said:You First!
Give us something to aim for.
N0 Basic with 6D DOA DAS LS 75% is 100,000 +/- 1,000
I'm sure no matter what we post, you'll do better.
and oh, BTW, Advantage Players will sometimes not draw, or surrender, or DD wherein the Basic Player will do otherwise. Going back over the records will alter the shoe, as the hands will be played different.
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You cannot even calculate card counting probabilities against real world casinos as the casinos will change the rules of the game as the game is played. They also make these changes without any notification nor warning. The real world BJ rules are "fluid" Ray, they are NOT standard. Your conclusion that you can gain an advantage against such games with a proper bankroll is so inane that anyone would question your math credentials.
Ray said:Does anyone remember the location of QFIT'S Scam site? The one that
compares flat betting, progressions and card counting.
LeonShuffle said:Witless,
I'm not usually rude to people on public forums but you've proven yourself to be a complete idiot. Do you realize you're talking to some people who KNOW card counting works because that's what we do? It's been proven over and over and over and over again that no progression will overcome a game with a house edge.
As far as progressions being better than card-counting, imagine this: You and I are playing at a roulette wheel. It's normal roulette except that as each number comes up, it disappears off the wheel. You're betting black, I'm betting red. The first two numbers that come up are both black. As a counter, I would now bet bigger on red because there are two more, and therefore a better chance of the ball landing on red. As a progression bettor, you would now bet bigger on black because you won the last two. Which one is the smarter play?
Tiltless said:Of course you are wrong again Leon - so wrong I doubt if you learned very much in your school. What is the name of your school, your real name, and the name of your math professor? After your post above, we need to check your credentials. If you believe the casino BJ could be beaten by card counting, as you stated above, then you seriously need to repeat some math classes. The only person I have seen moronic enough to make such statements before was Ingram & Cowley but we know they were retards. Where are you getting your obviously flawed information Leon? Certainly not from your college professors I hope?
Please name the mathematicians that claim BJ can be beaten if the cut card goes to 50% penetration in a 2D H17 game. Please name the mathematicians that claim BJ can be beaten if you get preferential shuffle. Please name the mathematicians that claim BJ can be beaten if you are restricted to flat bet only by the casino.
What you are saying is that based upon your studies of your "non-existent kitchen-table rules and game" you **think** that card counting can beat your kitchen table game. And you obviously **think** that your kitchen-table-BJ is comparable with casino BJ.
However, we do know that casinos need to keep the suckers coming in to make money. We also know, and the casinos know, that eventually they will run out of suckers. Casinos "mill" players. Once a player has lost all of his available money, there is a very good chance that player will stop playing casino games forever. Moreover, considering all the new competition in casino games, the overall reservoir (herd) of casino suckers is dwindling. So it is absolutely imperative that casinos hire people (public relations experts they are called) to tout and publish and post on newsgroups various pro casino hype. The casinos need all this hype and suggestions and fraudulent claims that "you can win big money - if you use card counting.
The only BJ game that can be beaten using card counting is the Single deck, S17, DAS, with 99% penetration. The way was originally set-up during Thorps era when the entire state of Nevada was dealing only single decks all the way down to the last card.
Have a nice day,
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I was confident that one of you would take exception and in your case make an accusation - the crack about 'poor record keeping'. For whatever it's worth the record keeping is exhaustive and complete. I didn't say that I almost never lose, in fact depending on how you want to break it up, I have more losing trips than winning. But the winners more than balance. Don't believe me, that's fine, but I resent the inference that I am either incompetent at keeping track, or worse, a liar.
What about the honest question as to whether non- AP's may win consecutive hands due to a positive count and profit by having more money on the table, just as you might?
In any event, I'm not taking the bait and joining the fray. This is the last you'll hear from me on this but for what it's worth Bug House was less condescending and more entertaining than some of the current regulars.
Regards and good luck to all.
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WBU students hit the beach, Metroplex for missions
Boxes of frozen chicken and plates full of pancakes don't sound like ministry tools to most folks. But for participants in two different mission trips taken through Wayland Baptist University's Baptist Student Ministries last week, those two were key to the mission work.
Three students and Wayland employee Teresa Young headed for Arlington for Spring Break to serve at Mission Arlington/Mission Metroplex. Another 11 students and two sponsors - BSM Director Donnie Brown and First Baptist Church education minister Eddie Curry - pointed their van to South Padre Island for a week at Beach Reach.
The Mission Arlington trip, probably the more traditional of the two options, began on Sunday. Students from all over the country ascended on the ministry, which offers benevolence programs from dental and medical care to clothing and food to the needy in the Arlington and Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex area. Mission Arlington also leads Bible studies and after-school programs for adults and children in many apartment complexes across the area.
Along with about 400 other students, the four from Wayland spent their mornings doing service projects for the mission and its apartment properties. The first day was spent hauling 40-pound boxes of frozen chicken to one complex, where the students gave it out to interested apartment residents. The students also placed fliers on hundreds of doors advertising the week's Rainbow Express offerings, a Bible club for children held at the apartments, and other Mission Arlington services.
"We worked really hard during those mornings, hauling food and moving an apartment office to another building," said Young, director of communications at Wayland and the group's sponsor. "It definitely wasn't a typical, restful Spring Break, but we knew we were where God wanted us to be and He would bless our efforts."
During the afternoons, the group traveled to Irving to lead a Rainbow Express at apartments. An average of 26 children came daily to the four-day afternoon Bible club, which featured songs, games, crafts, Bible stories and puppets. The students were able to share the gospel story with the children and two prayed to accept Christ during the week.
"Those kids didn't know much about love. It floored me to see how some of those kids opened up to us just in those four days," said Angie Wilson, a sophomore from Hobbs, N.M. who went on the trip. "In the end, they didn't want us to leave. And it broke my heart too, to get to know them and then have to leave them."
The lessons learned for the Wayland group were valuable, both personally and spiritually.
"When I got there, I knew it would be fun and hard work, but God really helped me do an attitude check during the week," Wilson said. "I learned that you don't always get to do fun stuff. Sometimes you have to do stuff you don't want to do, and when you're obedient, God chooses to bless you. The service projects were obedience and the bible clubs were a blessing. Sometimes to learn new things and reach people, you have to step out of that comfort zone."
Young agreed.
"I definitely learned that serving God requires you to be flexible and willing. It seemed strange at the time, but I know He can use those chicken donations to win people to Him and I was glad to be a small part of that work," she said. "The children were fun, of course, and we enjoyed just getting to love on them all week. It was also amazing to see that even in our own state there are many who have never heard the story of Jesus and what He did for us. It was great to be the first to tell some of those children the gospel story."
The Beach Reach group had a bit more nontraditional experience. Beginning Sunday evening, the group's primary tasks were to operate a free shuttle service out of their van, transporting Spring Break vacationers up and down the island from bars to hotels and back. While on the van, the students were able to witness to their partying peers and share the gospel.
As part of more than 200 Beach Reach participants, the Wayland group also took shifts at the free morning pancake breakfasts held at a local church for spring breakers and a midnight version of the same held outside a popular Padre night spot. At both events, students ate pancakes with visitors and had the chance to witness to them.
Wayland junior Kyle Parker of Plainview was one of the designated drivers, which left him with little time to really visit. But he said the other students had plenty of time to share since the two- or three-mile van ride often took 20-30 minutes due to heavy Spring Break traffic. He said the ministry was both emotionally difficult and greatly needed.
"That's the furthest spiritually stretched that you'll ever come," Parker said. "Once you cross the causeway, you're entering a whole different world. It's spiritual warfare, and you're tempted with so many things. You are exposed to things a lot of people may never have seen before. It's difficult to stay focused on why you're there."
Parker said the week was draining because of the struggle to be loving to the partygoers without being judgmental. The vacationers were also more open than he expected and some even sought him out.
"At one of the pancake breakfasts, I had a guy come up to me and say, 'I'm tired of leading this kind of lifestyle. I want something else,'" Parker recalled. "We thought a lot of people would just shut us out, but 90 percent of them are very receptive to what you have to say."
Shawn Mahannah, a sophomore from Panhandle, found his first experience at Beach Reach eye-opening, given the climate of drinking and partying typically going on there. Though his early efforts at sharing the gospel were fruitless and frustrating, he said he finally was able to lead a man to the Lord and that taught him a lesson.
"I spent some time in the prayer room and God just really took a hold of me," Mahannah said. "He showed me that if I stayed faithful to him, he would be faithful to me. Afterward, at one of the breakfasts, I shared with one guy and that one guy accepted Christ. God showed me that He will use me to win people to him."
Mahannah said he also learned not to put limitations on God, such as thinking the group could not witness to those who had been drinking. Instead, he said God proved that He could work in those people's lives as well.
"I think the one big thing students learned was that you have to be intentional about evangelism. It doesn't just happen," said BSM Director Donnie Brown. "Scripture says to be ready in season and out of season to give a response and that's what we learned.
"We also learned about the power of prayer. There was prayer going on constantly. We had fifty people come to Christ and the gospel was presented about 5,000 times over the week. We learned that the results were really left up to God. We were just doing what we were commanded to do."


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Creating Apple's Currency Converter example with OpenMCL
This HOWTO guide explains how to use OpenMCL to create a Cocoa application that is functionally identical to Apple's Currency Converter example. The most important difference between Apple's example and this one is that this one is implemented in Common Lisp instead of Objective C. It uses OpenMCL's Objective-C bridge to provide communication between the Lisp code that you write and Apple's Cocoa frameworks. The resulting application looks and acts just like any other Cocoa application.
This HOWTO doesn't discuss all the background information that Apple's tutorial covers. Instead, we assume that you have Apple's document handy for reference, and we just describe the specific steps needed to build the example using Apple's InterfaceBuilder? application and Clozure CL.
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It may be the dog days of summer, but Sacramento's political professionals are licking their chops at the prospects of a hearty campaign season.
Democracy is a messy thing, and in the Golden State it means another epic and expensive ballot fight in 2012.
A check of records at Secretary of State Debra Bowen's office shows 13 measures have been submitted for review by the attorney-general's office.
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Among them, measures that would partially dismantle the recently-approved state budget deal.
State Senator Ted Gaines, R-Roseville has filed a referendum that would roll back a $150 dollar fee to be assessed annually on property owners who lilve in rural or wildland areas.
That fee is meant to pay for firefighting costs. Another measure would undo a deal requiring redevelopment agencies to cough up millions to the state in order to stay in business.
The list includes some familiar topics.
Raising the retirement age for public pensioners, banning teen abortions without parental consent, easing restrictions on marijuana use.
There's also a measure to cancel SB48, the newly-signed law requiring California textbooks to include material on the contributions of gay and lesbian people.
None of this involves measures already approved for signature-gathering.
A dozen proposals have been given the green light. Among the most prominent, Amazon's efforts to kill a bill requiring on-line retailers to collect sales tax, an effort to tax oil production (California is the only major oil-producing state without such a levy), and a new effort to prevent labor unions from collecting dues for political campaigns.
It's another means of dealing with California's jobless rate. Look for the card tables and petition-gatherers (who are paid by the signature) to show up in force soon at your local grocery store, Target, or Wal-Mart.
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Jared White has posted another Willowgarden highlight to his blog today, this time with a focus on the processing of form input.
In the bad old days of processing forms and saving each field to a column in a database row, you'd have to do a lot of manual gruntwork: accessing each field from the $_POST superglobal, checking the values, constructing the SQL query, connecting to the database and executing the query, and so forth. Wouldn't it be great if you could just import the form right into an object, and let it do the validation and the database saving based on just a few simple rules? Let's take a quick look at how that might work.
He shows how to make an instance of the WFFormCreator class in a simple script and add actions to it to handle the successful submission and the errors that might come up.


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Arrowhawks are unusual avian creatures native to the Elemental Chaos, though they are occasionally found elsewhere. They possess long, slender bodies; a good half of their length comes from their tail. An arrowhawk's plumage is almost pure white when it first hatches, but most turn tan or light gray as they grow older. Some of its feathers, particularly along the front of the wings and the top of the tail, may possess a blue or purple tint. Its body is almost perfectly symmetrical along a horizontal axis — it possesses two pairs of wings, two pairs of eyes (one above and one below its beak), and even two tongues. Arrowhawks spend their entire lives in flight from the moment they're born. Like certain species of aquatic animals that continually swim, an arrowhawk's brain is split into two distinctive parts. When the arrowhawk grows tired, half of its brain rests while the other half continues to function normally, allowing the creature to effectively "sleep" while still awake. This unusual adaptation means that the arrowhawk is almost always alert, allowing it to survive in a hostile environment where one mistake often leads to death.
Arrowhawks are highly intelligent creatures — an adult is roughly as smart as a human — but seem to behave entirely like animals. They have no culture, no language, and no collective organization, although they seem capable of learning such concepts relatively quickly if taught by an outsider. Why such intelligent creatures have not evolved such things is unknown, but it's speculated that their elemental nature may be responsible. Unlike mundane birds, arrowhawks do not commonly form flocks. Except during mating seasons, most arrowhawks travel alone or with one or two other members of its species. This behavior is thought to prevent competition over food and water, as such commodities can be hard to find in the swirling maelstrom that these creatures call home. When two arrowhawks do meet to mate, they typically produce a clutch of 2-8 eggs (arrowhawk eggs are naturally buoyant, floating in place unless moved by an air current or other force). The male stays with the female only until the eggs are laid, at which point it leaves. The eggs require little assistance until they hatch, so the female leaves them largely untouched, moving them only if they are removed from the nest. Once they hatch, the young arrowhawks remain with their mother for several years until they are adults, then set off on their own.
An adult arrowhawk is around 10 feet in length with a wingspan of about 15 feet. Most specimens weigh no more than 100 pounds. Despite their intelligence, arrowhawks do not speak and do not normally know any languages, unless they have been specifically taught by another creature.
Arrowhawk Hatchling[edit | edit source]
A hatchling is an arrowhawk up to 3 years old. During this time the creatures are small and highly susceptible to predation, though they are by no means defenseless. Hatchlings stay with their parents at all times, leaving only once they have reached maturity and are ready to fend for themselves.
Arrowhawk HatchlingLevel 3 Artillery
Small elemental magical beast (air)XP 150
|Initiative +6
|Senses Perception +3; darkvision
|HP 38; Bloodied 19
|AC 15; Fortitude 15, Reflex 18, Will 15
|Resist 5 lightning
|Speed fly 10 (hover)
|Bite (standard; at-will)
|+10 vs. AC; 1d6 + 3 damage.
|Electricity Ray (standard; at-will) ♦ Lightning
|Ranged 10; +8 vs. Reflex; 1d10 + 3 lightning damage.
|Alignment Unaligned
|Languages —
|Str 14 (+3)
|Dex 20 (+6)
|Wis 15 (+3)
|Con 14 (+3)
|Int 10 (+1)
|Cha 11 (+1)
Arrowhawk Hatchling Tactics[edit | edit source]
Hatchlings hide behind their parents during combat, firing off electricity rays and relying on their speed to stay out of harm's way. If their parent is slain, the hatchlings will attempt to flee.
Adult Arrowhawk[edit | edit source]
An arrowhawk reachs adulthood at about 3 years of age. At this stage in development the arrowhawk is fully capable of surviving on its own and adopts the solitary nature typical of its species. An adult arrowhawk possesses the full array of powers that it will develop during its lifetime, although it is not the most powerful specimen of its race.
Adult ArrowhawkLevel 8 Artillery
Medium elemental magical beast (air)XP 350
|Initiative +10
|Senses Perception +13; darkvision
|HP 71; Bloodied 35
|AC 20; Fortitude 20, Reflex 23, Will 20
|Resist 10 lightning
|Speed fly 12 (hover)
|Bite (standard; at-will)
|+15 vs. AC; 1d8 + 5 damage.
|Electricity Ray (standard; at-will) ♦ Lightning
|Ranged 20; +13 vs. Reflex; 2d6 + 5 lightning damage.
|Forked Lightning (standard, usable only while bloodied; at-will) ♦ Lightning
|The adult arrowhawk makes two electricity ray attacks, each against a separate target.
|Alignment Unaligned
|Languages —
|Str 17 (+7)
|Dex 23 (+10)
|Wis 18 (+8)
|Con 17 (+7)
|Int 10 (+4)
|Cha 11 (+4)
Adult Arrowhawk Tactics[edit | edit source]
Adults use much the same tactics as hatchlings, except they have no parent to hide behind. An adult will typically flee if it is seriously wounded or if foes prove to be unharmed by its electricity ray.
Elder Arrowhawk[edit | edit source]
Elder arrowhawks are larger and more powerful than regular adults, having lived for at least 40 years, though the oldest among them can sometimes surpass 100 years of age.
Elder ArrowhawkLevel 14 Elite Artillery
Large elemental magical beast (air)XP 2,000
|Initiative +15
|Senses Perception +17; darkvision
|HP 220; Bloodied 110
|AC 26; Fortitude 26, Reflex 29, Will 26
|Resist 15 lightning
|Speed fly 12 (hover)
|Bite (standard; at-will)
|+21 vs. AC; 1d8 + 10 damage. The elder arrowhawk can expend 1 static charge to deal an extra 5 lightning damage with this attack (see growing static).
|Electricity Ray (standard; at-will) ♦ Lightning
|Ranged 20; +19 vs. Reflex; 2d6 + 10 lightning damage. The elder arrowhawk can expend 2 static charges to increase the damage dealt by this attack to 3d8 + 15 lightning damage (see growing static). If the elder arrowhawk expends static charges in this manner while making a forked lightning attack, all of the rays benefit from the increased damage.
|Forked Lightning (standard, usable only while bloodied; at-will) ♦ Lightning
|The elder arrowhawk makes two electricity ray attacks, each against a separate target. The elder arrowhawk can expend 2 static charges to make an electricity ray attack against one additional target (see growing static).
|Growing Static (minor 1/round; at-will) ♦ Lightning
|The elder arrowhawk collects static energy around itself and gains 1 static charge (maximum 3). An elder arrowhawk can expend static charges as an immediate reaction, which allows it to enhance its other powers.
|Alignment Unaligned
|Languages —
|Str 20 (+12)
|Dex 26 (+15)
|Wis 21 (+12)
|Con 20 (+12)
|Int 10 (+7)
|Cha 11 (+7)
Edler Arrowhawk Tactics[edit | edit source]
Elder arrowhawks fight in a similar manner to adults, but they use growing static every round if possible. They prefer to expend static charges on electricity ray or forked lightning attacks, but will use spare charges to add lightning damage to their bite if they find themselves unable to escape melee combat.
Arrowhawk Lore[edit | edit source]
A character knows the following information with a successful Arcana check.
- DC 15: Arrowhawks are unusual avian creatures native to the Elemental Chaos. Their primary means of defense is an electrical discharge, which they fire from their tails. The older an arrowhawk is, the more powerful this discharge grows.
- DC 20: From the time it is born an arrowhawk spends its entire life in flight, even while resting. In combat they use their natural speed and maneuverability to remain out of reach while firing electricity rays at opponents. Hatchlings and adults with young are likely to flee, but they otherwise fight to the death.
Encounter Groups[edit | edit source]
Younger arrowhawks are almost always found with their parent(s), while adults of the species tend to be solitary creatures. Arrowhawks of any age can sometimes be found as pets, companions, or slaves to other creatures, usually those who are also native to the Elemental Chaos.
Level 7 Encounter (XP 1,450) — Arrowhawk Parents
- 2 adult arrowhawks (level 8 artillery)
- 5 arrowhawk hatchlings (level 3 artillery)
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There are three separate players named Shaquille in the Rivals 150 prospect rankings, and this is no accident. The Millennials are done. It's time for Generation Shaquille.
The name "Shaquille" is a variation on Shakil, Arabic for handsome. But until 20 years ago, there weren't enough Shaquilles in America to make a dent in the census. That all changed, meteorically, in the early '90s. As young Shaquille O'Neal made a name for himself at LSU and then in Orlando, parents across the country started using the name. At its peak in 1993, when Shaq was named Rookie of the Year and released his first rap album, "Shaquille" was the 181st most popular boy's name in America. Those Shaqs, including Goodwin (Memphis), Cleare (Maryland), and Johnson (Auburn), are now 18 and 19 years old and hitting college.
There's a postscript to the rise of the Shaquilles. The name quickly tapered off in popularity, dropping out of the top 1000 in 1997. It was around that year that the name "Kobe" made its appearance on the charts.


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Boost ships with an ad-hoc build system named BJam. However, BJam is not very convenient to track compilation warnings and errors, and is not friendly and flexible in the support of specific build options. Fortunately, a team of developers has worked for over a year on a more standard way to build Boost, thanks to the CMake tool, namely Boost-CMake.
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The 6th annual Southern Blooms Festival at Rock City Gardens is returning this weekend with daily speakers, garden tours, music and more, Saturday and Sunday May 3-4. This event runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and honors Rock City's original gardener, Frieda Utermoehlen Carter.
This year's Southern Blooms hosts three speakers every day, including returning southern chef, writer and TV personality, Virginia Willis; southern storyteller, Andy Offutt Irwin; and southern gardener, Felder Rushing!
Willis is sharing some secrets for dressing up southern food and showing fun tips doing a food prep featuring local foods. She is the food editor for Southern Living, former kitchen director for Martha Stewart Living Television and author of Bon Appetit, Y'all! Irwin is an entertainer, writer, musician and recent winner of the "Storytelling World Award" for his latest cd Risk Assessment. Rushing is the founder of the "Slow Gardening" movement and has authored several books. All speakers are available for meet-and-greets and book signings after their workshops.
Garden tours of Rock City are being offered daily at 10 a.m., led by Rock City's Director of Horticulture George Schimpf and Chattanooga's Master Gardeners (limited space available). Gardening advice is also available in the vendor area near Lover's Leap.
Kids can make-and-take scented tissue paper flowers! And Coca-Cola is back again sponsoring an interactive rain barrel workshop at 3 p.m. in the pavilion. Check out the full event schedule with specific workshop times at www.seerockcity.com/southernblooms and come back for free by purchasing an annual pass!
Also enjoy delicious southern food with a modern twist at Café 7, an outdoor restaurant with a breathtaking view. Hear live music from the Old Time Travelers from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. See the flowers currently blooming including rhododendrons, native azaleas, mountain laurel and rose campion.
As Rock City continues its community partnerships with each special event and festival, the Chattanooga Area Food Bank is a featured community partner during Southern Blooms.
Just six miles from downtown Chattanooga, Tenn., Rock City Gardens is an enchanted, 4,100-foot walking trail showcasing lush gardens, caves and soaring rock formations.


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SHANGHAI (March 11, 2017) – Novus Aqua Academy, with a theme of "Map Out Strategy to Win in the Blue Ocean," will be held in Xiamen, Fujian on March 14-17.
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Invited speakers include Dr. Zhenyu Du from East China Normal University, Dr. Wang Guiqin from Jilin Agricultural University, Dr. Tao Qingyan, Novus North East Asia Technical Service Manager for Aqua, and Mr. Cao Shijun, Novus North East Asia Marketing Director. Dr. Du is one of the top experts from the Recruitment Program of Global Experts in China and has over ten years of experience in aquatic animal nutrition metabolism and aquatic product biosecurity with special expertise in fish lipid metabolism and aquatic product security evaluation. Dr. Wang also has over ten years of experience in aquatic animal nutrition and feed research as well as teaching, especially in the field of comparative animal nutrition, molecular immunity nutrition, and environment stress modulation by nutrition. In addition, she serves as a technical consultant for large companies such as Tong Wei Group and Wellhope. Dr. Tao has more than 15 years aquatic animal diet formulation experience. She is familiar with feed ingredients, feeding models and excels at aquatic animal nutrition metabolism and feed evaluation.
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The project was to proceed in three stages. Stage one was conducted in a lab. Stage two was conducted in a lifeless underground cavern. Reliant searched for a lifeless planet for stage three while the scientists put the finishing touches on their research and development. Unfortunately, Reliant got its planets mixed up and was hijacked by Khan.
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As with most pieces of miracle technology in fiction, Genesis had a horrible downside. Spock speculated that it would destroy any life in the area of its effect. David confirmed that it could be "perverted into a dreadful weapon". Khan learned of the project from a mind-controlled Pavel Chekov and added stealing the device to his objectives in addition to seeking revenge on Admiral Kirk. The devastating potential of the Genesis project became a subject of great controversy in the quadrant, with the Klingons doing everything from launching protests against the project to trying to steal it for themselves in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
Revenge and new birthMutara nebula, destroying the Reliant. The device reorganized the nebula gas and dust to form a new planet, named "Genesis", and the system was subsequently quarantined because of the previously mentioned controversy.
The planet did not exist long, however, as David Marcus used proto-matter in the matrix in order to solve unspecified problems with the mechanism. The use of unstable proto-matter in the matrix resulted in an unstable planet which soon self-destructed. David Marcus was killed by the Klingons trying to steal the secrets of the device, and the knowledge behind the technology was lost as a result.
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Trekkies see this device as an ultimate weapon in the Trek universe. In their eyes it could destroy entire fleets of enemy starships. Some have gone so far as to calculate exorbitant energy figures for the collapse of the nebula into a planet. These calculations are completely backwards, as the collapse of matter into a planet is a net-negative energy event.
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I'm interested in capturing the ordinary, whether it be an object or a momentary event. I want to make it permanent but make it seem like it isn't.(1) — Joseph Havel
Joseph Havel's art traffics in the paradox of opposing materials and appearances. What appears to be a floating, ghostlike apparition of cloth is in fact a heavy bronze sculpture. Havel often begins by hanging or draping different cloth materials throughout his studio, allowing gravity to dictate a natural configuration. From this starting point, he makes numerous drawings, along with photographs, documenting the complex of folds and wrinkles and then suggesting revisions through the drawing process. Havel then applies wax to the fabric to stiffen it, incorporating the drawing revisions, as well as making new ones as he directly manipulates the wax and cloth, generally drawing directly onto the form. When the form is finally set to the artist's satisfaction, the waxed cloth is cut into sections, each of which is in turn subtly manipulated again by the artist. From these intermediate stages of development and artistic license, bronze casts are made of the sections, which are then reassembled and welded into the final form. "The results," Havel puts it, "are various stages of idealizations of the 'natural'."
The Modern Art Museum's Drape, 1999, is an almost ten-foot tower of cascading cloth, reassembled from more than seventy sections of material that has been drawn over, waxed, and massaged into a flowing figurative presence. The visceral quality of the folds clearly references the ability of painting to make inert material sensuous, as well as the sculptor's challenge of bringing dynamic physical form into space. Tied off three quarters of the way up the drape, creating a crowning or secondary cascade of cloth, Drape could directly refer to Rodin's famous sculpture of the poet Honoré de Balzac, in which the poet is depicted wearing a full-length cape with a winglike piece of cloth flying off his shoulder (1897, Musée d'Orsay, Paris). When asked about this possible reference, the artist remarked, "I think about Rodin's Balzac a lot and sometimes it creeps into the work. It definitely seems like it did here. But remember, it's just an old drape that could have just fallen that way."
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FRIDAY, Sept. 21, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- While U.S. adults believe that bullying is a major health problem for children, they have different views about which types of bullying behavior should spur schools to take action, a new survey finds.
In the nationwide poll of more than 2,100 people 18 and older, 95 percent of respondents said schools should take action if one student makes another student afraid for his or her physical safety.
Eighty-one percent said schools should step in when someone humiliates or embarrasses another student, and 76 percent believed intervention should occur when someone spreads rumors.
Only 56 percent of respondents said schools should take action when students socially isolate a peer, according to the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital poll, which was conducted in May.
The survey also found that 90 percent of respondents said that threatening another student's physical safety is bullying, 62 percent said embarrassing or humiliating a student is bullying, 59 percent said spreading rumors about a student is bullying and 48 percent said isolating a student socially is bullying.
"The key finding from this poll is that adults don't see behaviors across the bullying spectrum as equivalent," poll director Dr. Matthew Davis, an associate professor of pediatrics and internal medicine as well as of public policy, said in a university news release.
"This is concerning because isolating a student socially is considered to be a form of bullying, and a dangerous one," he noted. "Isolating a student socially may be linked to episodes of school violence and also teen suicide."
Twenty percent of high school students report that they have been the victims of bullying, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"As school starts, this is the perfect time of year to have conversations about how each school can find solutions to the problems of bullying and address this important childhood health problem," Davis said.
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While resorts throughout the Interior are bragging about how much snow they've received, the truth is that mountain ranges like the Selkirks, Monashees, and Cariboos generally get far more.
Early season heli skiing actually isn't that popular, as people are usually busy with Christmas and other holiday plans. Indeed, some operators don't take guests until after Christmas, and use December for photo/video shoots or for guides' training.
There are exceptions, though. Last week, Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing started its 43rd season and as this pic shows, conditions are indescribably good (or "all time," as it's known). Their e-mail newsletter reports: "Our snow base is well over three metres in most places with nothing but face shots every run." Check it out on their weekly photo and video gallery. You might not want to watch these videos with your credit card nearby. Seems that there's still space for mid to late January, when conditions will be – hard to believe – even better than right now.
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When the government of the United States established the Mississippi Territory in 1798, the region around Natchez, which held the bulk of the population, contained about 5,000 whites and 3,500 slaves. Upon entering the union in 1817, Mississippi received slavery as a fully established economic and agricultural system. With the exception of the interior of the Delta region, which remained largely isolated and unsettled until after the Civil War, Mississippi by 1850 had been formed as illustrated by this county map.
In 1817 Mississippi had a population of about 40,000 whites and 30,000 African Americans. By 1860 African Americans made up 50% of Mississippi's total population of approximately 791,000 people. The African American's place was solidly established, regulated by legal codes and fueled by the institution of slavery.
At the time of its admission only the southern quarter and a narrow strip up the Mississippi to the Yazoo were open to legal settlement. The rest of the state was held by the Chickasaw and Choctow nations. By 1835 these Indian nations had lost all claims to their territory. An increasing flow of newcomers to the southern and eastern sections of the territory, mainly from Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, and the region above Mobile began to arrive. Those who arrived with sufficient capital quickly took possession of the better dark-soil lands and established plantations, leaving the cheaper uplands for those of lesser means. The French first introduced slavery into the Mississippi territory in the early 1700 and the English, who later settled into the territory, were eager purchasers of slaves.
The African American population was concentrated in the sections where the agricultural plantation was most prominent. The general feeling in the state was that their labor was essential to maintaining the plantation economy, and the African American would work only as a slave.*
Large numbers of slaves lived permanently in town, serving in a wide variety of occupations. In addition to the house servants, there were mechanics, draymen, hostlers, laborers, and washwomen. Some served as apprentices or helpers to white mechanics and builders, or worked in small factories catering to the local market.
Free African Americans living in Mississippi reached their greatest number around 1840, when the census listed 1,336, and they declined steadily, numbering only 775 in 1860. A majority were in the southwestern counties, with 255 in Adams County alone.
In 1860, during the last years of institutionalized slavery, African Americans in Mississippi numbered 437,303, compared with 353,901 whites. They were owned by 30,943 slaveholders, who possessed an average of 14.1 slaves each. The great mass who were of working age were field hands. Relatively small numbers had received special training as artisans or house servants.
Although slavery was abolished in 1865, African Americans living in Mississippi and throughout the south continued to be ruled by codes, institutionalized segregation. and the torment of the Ku Klux Klan.
*Click here to explore Mississippi plantation life. Indepth archealogical studies were conducted by the University of Southern Mississippi on six plantations throughout the state. Including the McCallum farm located in Forrest county and Saragossa plantation located Natchez district
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Martin St. Louis and Dan Girardi each notched a goal and an assist, Henrik Lundqvist stopped 31 shots, and the New York Rangers regained control of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series against the Philadelphia Flyers with a 4-1 win in Game 3 on Tuesday.
Much like the previous game, the Rangers raced out to a 2-0 lead in the first period before the Flyers sliced the margin in half heading into the first intermission.
Philadelphia went on to score three more times to take Game 2 by a 4-2 margin and even this best-of-seven set at one game apiece, but Lundqvist made sure Tuesday's lead held up, turning aside all 20 shots he faced over the final 40 minutes to stifle any hopes of another Philadelphia comeback.
Derek Stepan and former Flyer Daniel Carcillo supplied New York's other goals, while Rick Nash recorded a pair of assists in the victory.
Mark Streit scored the lone marker for the Flyers, who saw Ray Emery allow four goals on 20 shots before being pulled with just over seven minutes left in the third.
Emery made his third straight start in place of No. 1 goaltender Steve Mason, who made three saves in a surprise relief appearance. Mason wasn't expected to dress for the game as he continues to recover from an upper-body injury, but was named Emery's backup just hours before the game started.
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Know Thy President
Reagan the Man, the President
The Real Reagan: What He Believes, What He Has Accomplished, What We Can Expect From Him
Ronald Reagan: A Political Biography
Reagan in Pursuit of the Presidency
Where's the Rest of Me? The Autobiography of Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan: His Life and Rise to the Presidency
The Future Under President Reagan
Reaganomics: Supply Side Economics in Action
Every president since Franklin Roosevelt has been put to the hundred-day test, so Ronald Reagan got measured by the same standard. Articles were duly written putting his first hundred days in the White House up against the fabled first one hundred days of the New Deal. Reagan regularly gets likened to FDR on other grounds also, for he too is now seen as a "watershed" president, a figure leading and signifying major and abiding changes in the currents and patterns of our politics.
We know the end of the Roosevelt story whereas we're still living the plot of the Reagan movie, so comparisons can be very misleading. But there are obvious differences that subsequent events aren't going to smudge over. The biggest of them is that Roosevelt didn't have a clear or consistent idea about what he was going to do when he took the oath of office. Reagan did. The New Deal was concocted, invented, evolved by a company of ardent, worried, and energetic men (plus a few women) who didn't share a common vision, who weren't bound together by a creed. The Fast Shuffle or whatever name may be given to the Reagan administration is the opposite. Reagan's people said that when they took office they would, to use their paramilitary-police expression "hit the ground running." They did. They knew what they wanted to do beforehand and they're doing it.
The group FDR brought into office with him was a self-contradictory mélange of socialists, traditional balanced-budget, big D Democrats, technocratic central planners, anti-trust free enterprisers, and bleeding-heart pragmatists of no fixed ideological persuasion who only wanted to make the economic oowie go away. They hit the ground splattering and bickering. To this hour, historians are unsure about how to categorize this zigzagging administration of inconsistent and lapsed policy, of broad-hearted empathy and bewildered understanding.
Contrast that with Reagan. Reagan enters office as the symbol and expositor of a bundle of tied-together doctrines, supported by a growing library of theoretical and polemical literature. Magazines like Human Events, Commentary, The Conservative Digest expand and expatiate on these ideas for every educational level. Nothing like this existed when Roosevelt took the oath if only because the New Deal was invented after the Democrats took over in 1933, and even then they spent much of their leisure time the next eight years arguing with each other.
So different from the Reaganauts. They know one another immediately. They have their orthodoxy and they have no trouble distinguishing those who are not of it. They are trained into their political economy in a way that the enthusiastic but confusedly heterodox academic Roosevelt recruited weren't. The New Deal could not draw from alligator egg hatcheries like the American Enterprise Institute, the Hoover Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Affairs. The multimillion-dollar reptile nurseries that have trained Reagan's cadres were as unknown to the 1930s as are the new administration's organizational auxiliaries, be they YAF or the Moral…
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I've just got back from the vet. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I'm vaccinated against any nasty bugs that might try to attack me.
There were a couple of dogs that were smaller than me! They were even pretty scared of me!
I quite liked looking at all the posters on the wall…
But I wasn't keen on all the scary noises coming from the consultation room.
When it was my turn to go in, it turned out it wasn't so bad…
… Until the vet shoved a needle in my neck! But now my passport's all up to date and we can go down to Rome in 10 days time and sail away! I've got a special meat dinner too because I was brave!
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